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...world's total. More than a dozen state governments across the U.S. are getting ahead of Washington with mercury controls of their own. Foreign governments have also acted. "Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan have been reducing their use of mercury for five to 10 years," says Linda Greer, a member of the EPA's science advisory board...
...news is, once mercury is removed from circulation, it needn't trouble us again. As long as it's held in double-hulled containers and kept relatively cool to prevent evaporation, it is largely inert. "It's my favorite chemical for what you can finally do with it," says Greer. "It will sit placidly in a warehouse at under 70 degrees." It's a remarkably quiet end for a remarkably dangerous metal--an end that can't be too soon in coming...
...that stars in the making weren't available to Mann. Gorgeous young Jane Greer was an RKO ing?nue when Mann was there, just two years before her breakthrough role in Out of the Past. In fact, she had her first billed role in Mann's Two O'Clock Courage, where, at 20, she is already sultry and spoiled; and she appears again in his The Bamboo Blonde. But Mann apparently didn't see what Greer had: the high forehead, full lips and amoral aura that gave her a drop-dead-with-a-smile-on-your-face sexual charisma. The director...
...said at a press conference announcing the grant last Tuesday. “It’s high time we eliminated these disparities—and I’m proud that Dana-Farber and UMASS-Boston are stepping up to lead the effort,” Kennedy said. Greer L. Glazer, dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at UMASS-Boston and a researcher at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), said the grant will enable the first collaboration between the two institutions. “This is a tremendous opportunity for a world-class institution with...
Friedman recounts a conversation with friend Ken Greer, who runs a small media company being squeezed by competition from larger advertising firms. The passage illustrates one of the most frequent criticisms of Friedman’s writing—that he privileges cute anecdotes over meaty analysis...